This page details the PDF build of the boost documentation.

SVN commit ​51104 to trunk provides the basic support: improved fo.xsl stylesheet, tweaked individual Jamfiles so they find their images etc when being built as a PDF, and adds doc/pdf/Jamfile.v2 to build all boost libraries that can be as individual PDF's.

Beta builds of the PDF's are available from ​http://boost.cowic.de/rc/pdf/

The following default build options have been added to the fo.xsl stylesheet customisation layer:

• No indent on body text (we need all the horrizontal space we can get for code blocks).
• Left and right page margins 0.5in - a little small, but as above we need all the space we can get.
• Paper type is A4 - it's an ISO standard, and just a little smaller than US letter, so should print OK on both.
• Draft mode is turned off so we don't go after draft.png just in case.
• SVG graphics are used for admonishments.
• Default path to search for images (if not overridden in a library's Jamfile) is the SVN repository.

TODO's

• Currently only RenderX's XEP FO processor will build all the docs correctly, Apache FOP is *still* not mature enough :-(
• There is currently no way to detect overflow of content on the right margin (usually caused by over-long code blocks), ideally this would be made a build error.

Changelog

• ​51104: Initial version of PDF Build.
• ​51133: Fix Bimap image DPI's.
• ​51142: Fix Thread lib Jamfile.
• ​51147: Fix Boostbook XML so it generates valid FO.
• ​51218: Fix Quickbook markup in Optional and Numeric/Convertion libraries.
• ​51260: Fixes Boostbook install targets.
• ​51261: Adds external link rewrite capabilities.
• ​51284: Fixes PDF naming, fixes external links, adds more libraries.